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TI Tagging Atlantic bluefin tuna from a Mediterranean spawning ground using a purse seiner
BT 
AF Rouyer, Tristan
   Bonhommeau, Sylvain
   Giordano, Nicolas
   Giordano, François
   Ellul, Saviour
   Ellul, Giovanni
   Deguara, Simeon
   Wendling, Bertrand
   Bernard, Serge
   Kerzerho, Vincent
AS 1:1;2:2;3:3;4:3;5:4;6:4;7:5;8:6;9:7;10:7;
FF 1:PDG-RBE-MARBEC-LHM;2:PDG-RBE-DOI;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:;9:;10:;
C1 MARBEC, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, Sète, France
   IFREMER DOI, Rue Jean Bertho, 97822, Le Port, La Réunion, France
   Armement « Saint Sophie François II & III », SARL SSF, 15 Quai d’Alger, 34200 Sète, France
   MFF Ltd, Hangar, Triq it – Trunciera, Marsaxlokk MXK 1522, Malta
   AquaBioTech Group, Central Complex Naggar Street - Targa Gap, Mosta MST 1761, Malta
   SATHOAN, 28, Promenade J.B. Marty, 34200 Sète, France
   LIRMM, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, Montpellier, France
C2 IFREMER, FRANCE
   IFREMER, FRANCE
   SARL SSF, FRANCE
   MFF LTD, MALTA
   AQUABIOTECH GROUP, MALTA
   SATHOAN, FRANCE
   UNIV MONTPELLIER, FRANCE
SI SETE
   LA REUNION
SE PDG-RBE-MARBEC-LHM
   PDG-RBE-DOI
UM MARBEC
IN WOS Ifremer UPR
   WOS Ifremer UMR
   copubli-france
   copubli-europe
   copubli-univ-france
IF 2.422
TC 5
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00607/71876/70622.pdf
LA English
DT Article
DE ;Large Atlantic bluefin tuna;Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean stock;Electronic tagging;Purse seine;Migrations
AB Atlantic bluefin tuna, Thunnus thynnus, is as an emblematic and commercially valuable large pelagic species. In the past ten years, the purse seine fishery in the Mediterranean represents more than 50 % of the catch. Nowadays, purse seines target large fish and operate during the spawning season in the spawning grounds. Electronic tagging has shed a considerable amount of light on the ecology and behaviour of bluefin tuna over the past twenty years. However, such technique has rarely been applied on large bluefin tunas caught by the Mediterranean purse seine fishery despite its major importance. The logistical constraints related to this specific fishery, combined with the timing of migration of the fish and the requirements related to the handling of big fish have made adequate tagging from purse seines complex. Here we detail such an operation, designed to bridge the knowledge gap on the migratory behaviour of tunas targeted by the purse seine fishery. Three large bluefin tunas from the same school were tagged during the fishing operation of a French purse seine, resulting in a different migration pattern than previous deployments. The fish were tagged onboard in less than 2 min and efficiently, avoiding any subsequent mortality. These results contrast with those from tagging operations carried out in the Northwest Mediterranean, which underlies the importance of tagging operations from purse seines to obtain unbiased description of the movements of the eastern Atlantic bluefin tuna stock in the context of its management. 
PY 2020
PD JUL
SO Fisheries Research
SN 0165-7836
PU Elsevier BV
VL 226
UT 000525305200010
DI 10.1016/j.fishres.2020.105522
ID 71876
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